Meteorological and climatological triggers of notable past and present bark beetle outbreaks in the Czech Republic
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Published:2022-09-28
Issue:9
Volume:18
Page:2155-2180
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ISSN:1814-9332
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Container-title:Climate of the Past
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Clim. Past
Author:
Brázdil Rudolf, Zahradník Petr, Szabó Péter, Chromá KateřinaORCID, Dobrovolný PetrORCID, Dolák LukášORCID, Trnka Miroslav, Řehoř Jan, Suchánková Silvie
Abstract
Abstract. Based on documentary evidence, a chronology of bark
beetle outbreaks in the Czech Republic from 1781 to 1963 CE was created,
continuing from 1964 through 2021 by bark beetle salvage felling data. The
spatial distribution of bark beetle events concentrates on the border
mountains of Bohemia and in the northern parts of Moravia and Silesia. The
temporal distribution of the most important bark beetle outbreaks
is concentrated in the 1830s, 1870s, 1940s–1950s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and
2010s. Each of these notable calamities was analysed in detail with respect
to their spatial extent, the volume of damaged wood, and their
meteorological patterns. While meteorological triggers of the largest
outbreaks of the 19th century were attributed especially to the slow
procession of disastrous volumes of damaged wood after large windstorm
events sometimes intensified by dying trees in subsequent dry years, the
recent warming with relatively stable precipitation from the 1980s moves the
main meteorological and climatological triggers to more frequent warm and
dry meteorological patterns, acting simultaneously in interaction with
severe windstorms. The last bark beetle outbreak from 2015 was evaluated as
the most disastrous disturbance to spruce forest over the territory of the
Czech Republic in documented history. The paper also discusses uncertainties in bark beetle data, responses to past bark beetle events, and relationships between environment, climate, and bark beetle outbreaks.
Funder
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy Ministerstvo Zemědělství Akademie Věd České Republiky Masarykova Univerzita
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
Paleontology,Stratigraphy,Global and Planetary Change
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